Monochrome- A Choose Your Own Adventure Story

[Marius]

(A story set in Unova. Make the character do things by commenting your action, and have fun! This story could go in a hundred different directions. This story is also on BMGf- suggestions from both forums will be used in updates.)

Your eyes shoot open and you topple out of your bed with a gasp. What's happened? You're not quite sure, but you feel sick and you can't remember what happened to you before falling asleep. You find yourself staring at your reflection in a mirror. Is that you? You seem so much older then... how old are you again?

You wander around the room, looking at everything. Alarmingly, a thin layer of dust seems to coat every surface. How long were you asleep, and what's happened since then? Your hair is a mess and there are bags under your eyes, even though you just woke up. You brush some of your rat's nest out of your eyes.

There's a dusty Poke Ball sitting on the table. Underneath it are a collection of books, but you can't make out the titles. One is substantially thicker than the others. Your room seems to have a completely black and white color scheme. You don't remember this happening. There's a window set in the wall, but it seems to be covered by thick, dark curtains.

Your bag contains:
Potion x2
Poke Ball x5
Great Ball x1
Poison Heal x1
Paralyze Heal x1
Awakening x1

What do you do?

[Marius]

>Take the curtain off the window and wear it like a cape.

You decide the first thing to do is to look substantially cooler than you do right now. The second thing you want to do is figure out what the heck the world looks like outside that window. Clearly the best compromise is to rip the curtain off of the window and wear it like a cape.

Sunlight, not as much as you expected, filters in through the window as you tear the curtain free. You tie the curtain around your neck and strike several awesome poses before looking out at the rest of the world.

>Draw the curtains, look outside and scream for your mum.

You're scared of what might be out there. You know it. But you're going to have to know if you're going to get to the bottom of what you are beginning to realize is a massive mystery unraveling around you. You look out the window.

And you scream.

Nothing looks right. The sky is choked by black-grey clouds and like your room, the once-colorful houses are just a patchwork of black and white. Smoke snakes up into the sky in the distance. It's like looking over a gigantic chessboard.

The people are moving slowly, apathetic, like they've got no place to go. When you were younger, kids were always happily dashing through the streets of Castelia City, running to or from school, playing with friends or setting off on a grand adventure with only their Pokémon to help them.

Where are the kids? And where are the Pokémon?
Your bag contains:
Potion x2
Poke Ball x5
Great Ball x1
Poison Heal x1
Paralyze Heal x1
Awakening x1
Curtain Cape x1

What do you do?

[PV]

I'm a firm believer in throwing the table at the window.

[HKim]

> Retrieve Arms.

[Marius]

>Retrieve arms

Well, you're not quite sure how to react to that, really. Last time you checked your arms were firmly attached to your body, so there's no reason to retrieve them. Unless it means arms as in weapons? There aren't any weapons in the room, so that's out. You may have to explore the rest of the house.

>Examine the books

You put the dusty Poke Ball in your bag and examine the books.

You have obtained one Mysterious Poke Ball! You placed the Mysterious Poke Ball in the Balls Pocket!

You pull the first book off of the stack. It's title is The Care and Keeping of Eggs. It seems like its not going to be very helpful unless you find an egg anywhere, which seems unlikely.

The next book is actually a magazine. It's labeled Thyme Magazine. You flip through it quickly but see only recipes. Nonetheless, you tuck it into your bag in case later on you require some urgent cooking advice.

The thickest book appears to be a photo album. The word Memories is stamped on the cover in faded gold lettering. You flip open the album and realize quickly that it's full of photographs of you at different points in your life.

Fifth birthday party!

Aww, you look cute in that picture.

There is a letter tucked between the back two pages of the album. You swallow hard looking at it. The handwriting seems very familiar.

You have obtained one Photo Album! You put the Photo Slbum in the Painful Memories pocket!

You have obtained one Strange Letter! You put the Strange Letter in the Mail pocket!

>I'm a firm believer in throwing the table at the window.

After taking the books and Mysterious Poke Ball, you decide that the now-empty table, helpful as it has been so far, can serve no further purpose. The most logical course of action is to dispose of it by throwing it out the window. Unfortunately, your muscles have atrophied from your long sleep and your attempts to lift and carry a heavy table look rather pathetic.

You end up dragging the table towards the window, only to find unhappily that it's far too wide to fit. You have to turn it on its side to shove it through, and as you do one of the legs is knocked loose.

You have obtained one Broken Table Leg! You placed the Broken Table Leg in the Pieces of Wood pocket!

There's an echoing crash as the table hits the sidewalk. You find yourself wondering how necessary that really was.

>Look for any evidence in your room that can help you, such as books, a calendar the time. Then exit your room, armed with your curtain cape to cover anyone with, and go downstairs...

Well, you already pocketed the books, and there's really no point in looking at them again so soon. There's a clock hanging on the wall, but it looks cracked and broken. You can't see any calendars, which sort of makes sense. If you were really asleep for a long time and no one knew you were here, they'd hardly be updating the calendar annually.

You draw your curtain cape tightly around yourself and slide the door open. The oppressive silence is eerie and you jump at the shriek that the rusty hinges make. Apparently the door hasn't been opened in a long time.

You walk down the stairs cautiously, flinching every time they squeak under your weight. Finally, you reach the main floor. It seems that there's no one here.

There's a kitchen containing several cabinets and a refrigerator.

There's a bathroom, containing typical bathroom things.

There are two closed doors.

There is some sort of chest.

There is a door to the outside, which is slightly open.

Your bag contains:

Potion x2
Poke Ball x5
Great Ball x1
Poison Heal x1
Paralyze Heal x1
Awakening x1
Curtain Cape x1
Mysterious Poke Ball x1
The Care and Keeping of Eggs x1
Thyme Magazine x1
Photo Album x1
Strange Letter x1
Broken Table Leg x1

What do you do?

[HKim]

>Examine Fridge

[Ganyu]

> Get out for some fresh air, after breakfast that is.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Look for useful adventuring items in the chest!

[Marius]

>Examine Fridge

You wander over to the fridge and pull it open. Lucky the power stayed on, or most of your food would have rotted away. That's assuming you were asleep for a long time, and you see no reason not to. The world changed while you were out, after all.

You obtained twelve Eggs! You placed the Eggs in the Food pocket.
You obtained one Moomoo Milk! You placed the Moomoo Milk in the Medicine pocket.
You obtained three Rare Candies! You placed the Rare Candies in the Candy pocket.
You obtained one Chocolate Bar! You placed the Chocolate Bar in the Candy pocket.
You obtained two Beef Jerky Sticks! You placed the Beef Jerky Sticks in the Survival Rations pocket.

Some of those items are for Pokémon, which makes you wonder if you used to have Pokémon. Probably. You wonder where they are now. Were they struck by whatever bleaching effect seemed to have seized the rest of the world? You find yourself hoping not.

>Look for useful adventuring items in the chest!
>Open the strange letter, try open the chest, look through the two doors (for clues) and go outside

You take out the Strange Letter. It opens very easily, as though it's been weakened by age, reinforcing your theory that you've been asleep for a really, really, really long time. It flops open in your hands. It's got a very soft quality.

You opened the Strange Letter!

The Strange Letter reads as follows.

My dear trainer,

I don't think we will win this battle. The ghosts are gaining ground, and we've yet to find a way to destroy them. I know that you will be angry with me when you awake, but I am going to use my psychic abilities to make you sleep for a long, long time. I hope that when you wake up, the danger will have passed. I'm writing this down so you know what happened and why I did it, because I don't think I will live long enough to come back for you.

I am so sorry. Good luck.
-Gardevoir

You tuck the letter away again, your mind spinning with unanswerable questions. What battle? What ghosts? You were a Pokémon trainer? What happened to your Pokémon, especially the Gardevoir that you apparently had?

Your head hurts. You decide wisely to agonize over this later.

You flip open the chest instead and look through the contents.

You found one Lantern! You placed the Lantern in the Adventuring pocket.
You found two Lantern Oils! You placed the Lantern Oils in the Adventuring pocket.
You found one Escape Rope! You placed the Escape Rope in the Adventuring pocket.

All useful things. You wonder if you put them there. Apparently you did, if this is your house. Maybe you really liked adventuring or something.

>Search the bathroom and kitchen for anything useful, then check the chest and other two doors for clues.

It seems there's nothing in the kitchen cabinets, and you already looted the refrigerator, so there's no point in looking in the kitchen. You go the the bathroom.

You found one Gross Toothbrush! You placed the Gross Toothbrush in the Sanitation Pocket.

There's not much else here except OH MY GOD THERES A DEAD BODY IN THE BATHTUB.

You dash out of the bathroom and slam the door behind you, your heart racing. The body probably can't chase after you... probably... but it's good to make sure.

After the Body-In-The-Bathtub experience, you elect not to explore the remaining rooms alone. Not that you're scared or anything. You're just interested and highly invested in remaining alive a bit longer and you worry that maybe that won't happen should you enter those doors. Alone. With no light.

>Get out for some fresh air, after breakfast that is.

You need some food, is what you need. You crack two of the Eggs and fry them up. You wonder briefly if Eggs can go bad. You've heard of Bad Eggs, after all, but you're pretty sure that was referring to something else. You dig into the eggs happily. They're delicious.

You ate two Fried Eggs! You are now Pleasantly Full!

Breakfast makes you feel a quite bit braver, and you decide to go out for some fresh air. At least there are other people out there. You wander out onto the streets.

You briefly consider that you are having weird mood swings.

There is a horde of Creepy People here.
There are other houses here.
There is a Mailbox here.

Your bag contains:

Spoiler:

Potion x2
Poke Ball x5
Great Ball x1
Poison Heal x1
Paralyze Heal x1
Awakening x1
Curtain Cape x1
Mysterious Poke Ball x1
The Care and Keeping of Eggs x1
Thyme Magazine x1
Photo Album x1
Strange Letter x1
Broken Table Leg x1
Eggs x10
Moomoo Milk x1
Rare Candy x3
Chocolate Bar x1
Beef Jerky Sticks x2
Gross Toothbrush x1
Lantern x1
Lantern Oil x2
Escape Rope x1

What do you do?

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Try opening the mysterious Pokeball for protection!